Oral cavity and oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma—an update

AC Chi, TA Day, BW Neville - CA: a cancer journal for clinicians, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Answer questions and earn CME/CNE Oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma (OC‐SCC) is
the most common malignancy of the head and neck (excluding nonmelanoma skin cancer) …

Epidemiology of head and neck cancer

EM Rettig, G D'Souza - Surgical oncology clinics, 2015 - surgonc.theclinics.com
Head and neck cancer (HNC) encompasses a heterogeneous group of upper aerodigestive
tract malignancies that together comprise the seventh most common cancer worldwide, 1 …

Global cancer statistics, 2012

LA Torre, F Bray, RL Siegel, J Ferlay… - CA: a cancer journal …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Cancer constitutes an enormous burden on society in more and less economically
developed countries alike. The occurrence of cancer is increasing because of the growth …

Oral cavity carcinoma: current management, controversies, and future directions

SB Chinn, JN Myers - Journal of clinical oncology, 2015 - ascopubs.org
Oral cavity carcinoma (OCC) remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in patients
with head and neck cancer. Although the incidence has decreased over the last decade …

Update on head and neck cancer: current knowledge on epidemiology, risk factors, molecular features and novel therapies

F Pezzuto, L Buonaguro, F Caponigro, F Ionna… - Oncology, 2015 - karger.com
Tobacco use and alcohol consumption are the main risk factors associated with head and
neck squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) development due to their cytotoxic and mutagenic …

Tobacco-, alcohol-, and drug-attributable deaths and their contribution to mortality disparities in a cohort of homeless adults in Boston

TP Baggett, Y Chang, DE Singer… - … Journal of Public …, 2015 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. We quantified tobacco-, alcohol-, and drug-attributable deaths and their
contribution to mortality disparities among homeless adults. Methods. We ascertained …

Lifestyle and cancer risk

VA Katzke, R Kaaks, T Kühn - The Cancer Journal, 2015 - journals.lww.com
The global incidence of cancer is expected to increase substantially over the next decades.
This trend is very much driven by a rise in lifestyle-related cancers due to economic and …

[HTML][HTML] Convergence of decreasing male and increasing female incidence rates in major tobacco-related cancers in Europe in 1988–2010

J Lortet-Tieulent, E Renteria, L Sharp… - European Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Introduction Smoking prevalence has been declining in men all over Europe, while the trend
varies in European regions among women. To study the impact of past smoking prevalence …

Estimating and explaining the effect of education and income on head and neck cancer risk: INHANCE consortium pooled analysis of 31 case‐control studies from 27 …

DI Conway, DR Brenner, AD McMahon… - … journal of cancer, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Low socioeconomic status has been reported to be associated with head and neck cancer
risk. However, previous studies have been too small to examine the associations by cancer …

The INHANCE consortium: toward a better understanding of the causes and mechanisms of head and neck cancer

DM Winn, YCA Lee, M Hashibe, P Boffetta… - Oral …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The International Head and Neck Cancer Epidemiology (INHANCE) consortium is a
collaboration of research groups leading large epidemiology studies to improve the …